Reading Activities at Home(Helpful tips for motivating kids to make a habit of reading; activity calendars include fun ideas for indoor and outdoor reading activities; stories, nursery rhymes, activities)
Digital Book Talk (Search by title, author, genre, content or level)
Boys Read(Site devoted to help boys develop a lifelong love of reading)
Read Write Think- (Provides educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.)
Teaching Reading K-2: A Library of Classroom Practices(Annenberg Learning Videos; video library for K-2 teachers; 12 half-hour video programs, one half-hour overview video; draws on real classrooms and literacy research, this video workshop addresses critical topics in teaching reading for K-2 teachers)
Teaching Reading 3-5 Workshop (The Annenberg Learning Videos; video workshop for grade 3-5 teachers; presents strategies on how to help students transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn.")
Vocabulary and Spelling City (Import classes' spelling and vocabulary lists to create activities; popular spelling lists available; games like Unscramble, Alphabetize and Speedy Speller are just a few of the activities; tutorials that explain how to use the site and give ideas for implementing activities in the classroom)
Phonics
Starfall (Interactive and downloadable materials for teachers and parents to use as a supplement to support reading and phonics development for children in kindergarten and first grade; materials at four levels: Starfall ABC's which addresses alphabet and sound recognition; Learn to Read materials which focus on blending and chunking sounds; It's Fun to Read materials which begin to offer variety in the types of materials presented; and I'm Reading, the most advanced level which offers selections with high frequency words to promote reading success)
Reading
http://www.neirtec.org/reading_report/report.htm
Reading Strategies
Vocabulary
Phonics
- Starfall (Interactive and downloadable materials for teachers and parents to use as a supplement to support reading and phonics development for children in kindergarten and first grade; materials at four levels: Starfall ABC's which addresses alphabet and sound recognition; Learn to Read materials which focus on blending and chunking sounds; It's Fun to Read materials which begin to offer variety in the types of materials presented; and I'm Reading, the most advanced level which offers selections with high frequency words to promote reading success)
Two SistersCreative Writing
- Newspaper Headlines +++
( Download, embed and print newspaper headlines and talking creatures)Writing Ideas
- Writing - Emphasizing the Process
- Concertina and Single-Bound Books(How to make two different types of books for students to publish their works)
- Links for Making Books in the Classroom (Over 25 links for making classroom books)
Six Traits of WritingGraphic Organizers
Text Protocol - Judith Gray (2005)
Differentiated Instruction:Grouping for Reading Success - Dr. Vicki Gibson
http://lincs.ed.gov/
Research-based methods of reading instruction, Grades K-3 - Vaughn (2004)
Group sizes and time alloted to intervention: Effects for students with reading difficulties
Instructional grouping for reading for students with LD: Implications for practice
Differentiation in practice: A resource guide for differentiating curriculum (Tomlinson)
The differentiated classroom: Responding to the needs of all learners (Tomlinson)
Looking inside classrooms: Reflecting on the "how" as well as the "what" in effective reading instruction (Taylor)
www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/classroom.html
www.readingrockets.org/articles/c93
www.safeandcivilschools.com
www.pacificnwpublish.com
www.gha-pd.com
www.fcrr.org
www.tea.org
www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/1/cu2.html
www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/differentiate/planning/
www.readingrockets.org/articles/c64
http://ecot.rice.edu/conferences/acpweb/UST/EDUC5325/fluency.html